Improvement in toy money-boxes



y 1. HALL. Tuy Money-Boxes.

Patented Sep't. 8,1874.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HALL,` OF WATERTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN TOY MONEY-BOXES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 154,793, datedpSeptember 8, 1574; application filed January 31, 1874.

Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Toy Money-Box; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accom@ panying drawing, of which- Figure l denotes a front view of the bank or money-box, with a puppet, which may be termed the cashier of the bank. Fig. 2 shows the construction and arrangement of the image representing the cashier of the bank.

In such drawings, A denotes the bank or money-box, which is made in the forni of a building of any desirable style, having an arched recess or chamber, c, in the upper story in which is placed the cashier o. A slot, n, is made through the wall of said chamber, through which a coin may be thrown into the vault or main body of the box.

The image is constructed and arranged in manner as shown by Fig. 2, having a small tablet, e, in front, on which to place a coin. A socket is made upward into the body to receive a pivot, s, upon which the image may freely turn when placed upon it, the' back of said image being heavier than the front. The pivot s is made firm to the door of said recess or chamber c, being nearly in an upright position, but of suflicientangle to cause the tigure o, of its own weight or force of gravitation, to front outward. y

If, now, a coin be placed upon the tablet e, the excess of weight then being in front of said image, it will turn quickly upon lthe pivot, and automatically transfer the. coin through the slot n into the box, and return to its former position.

The image may also be placed at the door, or upon a balcony, as may be shown by placing it upon the pivot w.

I therefore claiml. The weighted image o, provided with the tablet e, and having a socket to receive the pivot upon which it turns, when combined with the inclined pivots s or w, as shown, and arranged to operate substantially as described.

2. The combination of the image o, pivoted as described, with the bank or money-box A, having the recess or chamber c, and slots n or k, when said parts are constructed and arranged substantially as set forth and shown.

JOHN HALL.

Witnesses JOSEPH CRAFTS, ALEXANDER GREGG. 

